Meal Collection (page 10)

A group of Japanese people enjoying a meal
A group of five Japanese people are cooking meat over charcoal for a meal. This method is known as Jenghiz Khan nabe and was introduced from Mongolia. Date: 1932

Caravanning scene with couple and dog. Choose your place preferably where a large fruit tree hangs over the wall. Date: 1932

Hungry Peter the pig drinking a toast in the soup, as everyone at the dinner party is teetotal! Date: 1914

Hungry Peter the pig putting sugar in the soup
Hungry Peter the pig accidentally putting castor sugar in the soup instead of pepper. Date: 1914

Samuel Baker, explorer in East Africa, with his wife Florence, near the Karuma Falls. The natives assume he is Spekes brother, because their beards are similar. Date: circa 1864

Baker, Speke and Grant, explorers in East Africa
Samuel White Baker, John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant, explorers in East Africa, enjoying a civilised meal together under an awning. Date: 1863

Liverpool Robins Christmas Dinner Guests
Some of the guests at a Robins Christmas Dinner, a meal provided each December for up to five thousand poor children of Liverpool from 1873 onwards. Date: circa 1910

St Vincents Boys Home, Hull - Dining Room
St Vincents Boys Home, Hull. Tables laid out for a meal

A Mere Matter of Form by Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
Distressing mistake of the cook recently released from a munition factory. A familys cook absent-mindedly shapes the pudding for that day into a shell, much to the shock and panic of her employers

Family group of six in a garden
Family group of six enjoying afternoon tea in a garden. Date: circa 1920s

Soldiers eating in the open air at a camp
Soldiers eating at two long tables in the open air at a camp. Date: circa 1940s

WW1 - British officers at their meal in a trench-shelter
WW1 - Three British officers having a meal in a " dug-out", trench-shelter. The underground burrowings were dug out at intervals in the trenches or in convenient places near the firing

Household scene in Milan, 15th century.. Handcolored illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries

After a meal in a British trench 1915
A peaceful pipe before another spell of duty. 1915

Vintage Caravan, England. Showing Deaf Reformer & Photogrpaher Selwyn Oxley - Caravan workers enjoying a mid-day meal on the van - Inside the door is the Ephphatha Almanack 1913. Date: 1910s

Soldiers enjoying the free buffet at Victoria station, WW1
Soldiers at Victoria Railway Station enjoying the hot coffee available - for free - from the Soldiers and Sailors Free Buffet

WW1 - Eastern Front - Soup distributed to soldiers Date: circa 1917

Cartoon, German women gossipping, WW1
Cartoon, German women gossipping about a diner in a restaurant -- He must be a horrible French spy! Hes eating his veal without jam! Date: 1915

Spanish family sitting at the table at mealtime. 1950s-1960s

Japan - Meal time Three men sit together
Lantern slide of Meal time. Three men sit together on the floor with food in the middle on a small table.. Part of Box 158 Japan, Part of Boswell Collection, slide no. 5 Date: circa 1890s

Water shrew, adult, rests after a meal (as it consumes a few of its own weights worth of food a day, its rests often but briefly) (Neomys fodiens)

The centenary fete of the asylum of female orphans, Lambeth
The centenary fete of the asylum of female orphans on Westminster Road, Lambeth. Here the Archbishop of Canterbury is pictured saying Grace

WW1 Oxo advertisement
Advertisement for Oxo suggesting Oxo and potato cakes as a delicious (and economical) luncheon during the First World War. Date: 1918

Boy scouts at camp, breakfast time, Mauritius

Boy scouts cooking at camp, Mauritius

Typical menu at a communal kitchen, WW1
A blackboard showing a typical menu at a communal kitchen in 1918. Communal and National Kitchens were established to help combat food shortages during the First World War by catering in bulk

Japanese scouts eating at camp
Japanese scouts enjoying a meal at camp

Japanese scouts at jamboree, Blair Atholl, Scotland
Japanese scouts at a jamboree, Blair Atholl, Scotland. Date: 1984

Munitions workers waiting for the tea hooter, WW1
Women munitions workers outside the National Control Canteen, run by female volunteers, waiting for the tea hooter to sound

Boy scouts at Loyola Camp, British Honduras
Boy scouts in the Refectory with breakfast set out, Loyola Camp, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1951

Dutch sea scouts on large sailing boat, Holland
Dutch sea scouts on a large sailing boat, Holland, enjoying a snack

Christmas Feasting in the 14th century
Artists impression of a banquet of the 14th century. The tables were narrow and movable, consisting of boards resting on trestles

Tea Time in Dining Hall of National Control Canteen, WW1
Female munitions workers in the dining hall of the National Control Canteen, run by voluntary lady workers to provide cheap, nutritious meals for employees. Date: 1916

Spanish refugees in Gibraltar are given a meal of soup and bread by local boy scouts after crossing the frontier from Spain, 4 February 1965. Although Spanish-speaking, their passports are British

Rationing of Food, February 1918, WW1
Page from The Sphere reporting on the introduction of food rationing of meat and butter in London and Home Counties on 25 February 1918

Christmas Day with the Fleet, sailors enjoy Xmas dinner, WW1
Sailors as guests of Lady Beatty (wife of Admiral Beatty) enjoying a Christmas dinner " somewhere in Scotland." The wives of officers of the Grand Fleet helped to make the dinner a success

British troops in church billets in Flanders, WW1
Just back from the trenches, British troops settle down in church billets during a service after a stretch of work in the first line on the Western Front

Restaurant restrictions during WW1
Article from The Sphere demonstrating the new wartime lunch and dinner restrictions put in place in restaurants and hotels

Dinner reception at election time
Upper class ladies and gentlemen at a dinner reception at election time, with a results board above them naming the four political parties: Conservative, NAT Liberal, Liberal and Labour

German boy scouts at camp, enjoying an outdoor meal

Charles II knights the sirloin
Charles II knights a " Sir Loin" of beef at a feast. Date: 1600s

French boy scouts enjoying meal at camp
French boy scouts enjoying a meal at camp

Armenian boy scouts at refugee camp, Egypt
Armenian boy scouts blowing cook house at the Armenian refugee camp, Heliopolis, near Cairo, Egypt. The camp was formed during the Egyptian Riots of June 1919

Suffragette, Simple Life - Dinner-Time. Sandal wearing couple enjoying the Simple Life - fresh air and a frugal meal sat at the dinner table

WW2 Poster -- the ATS wants Cooks
The ATS wants Cooks. Recruitment poster, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colour photolithograph, artist unknown, published by HMSO

WRAF Mess Hut at Cranwell, WW1
Scene inside the WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) Mess Hut at Cranwell, probably during the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service Central Training Establishment Cranwell was commissioned on 1

Fire station staff in meal break, London, WW2
Fire station staff having a meal supplied from a mobile canteen van in a school playground in London during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

The first National Kitchen, WW1
The first National Kitchen in Britain, opened on 21 May 1917 by Queen Mary. The National Kitchens were opened during the First World War to provide one solution to food shortages

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